RobLonUK
@robb-uk.bsky.social
Unashamedly geek / classical music lover / has been known to rant when passionate about something 😉
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December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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UK arms imported by Israel have doubled in 2025.
The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵
The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
UK arms imported by Israel have doubled in 2025.
The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵
The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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"It’s curious that the Orwell Prize – Britain’s most celebrated award for public interest journalism – has turned to a man who’s spent much of his career trying to stifle it.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"It’s curious that the Orwell Prize – Britain’s most celebrated award for public interest journalism – has turned to a man who’s spent much of his career trying to stifle it.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Ah, Denmark. Denmark Denmark Denmark...
Labour have explicitly chosen to copy the policies of a government that is losing ground to their local far right party because its natural voters are disgusted at its draconian attitude to issues such as immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Labour have explicitly chosen to copy the policies of a government that is losing ground to their local far right party because its natural voters are disgusted at its draconian attitude to issues such as immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Ah, Denmark. Denmark Denmark Denmark...
Labour have explicitly chosen to copy the policies of a government that is losing ground to their local far right party because its natural voters are disgusted at its draconian attitude to issues such as immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Labour have explicitly chosen to copy the policies of a government that is losing ground to their local far right party because its natural voters are disgusted at its draconian attitude to issues such as immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If you want to understand why the climate regime has been unsuccessful, this article by @ninalakhani.bsky.social is a great place to start! It's so important to shine a light on the ways that the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated the COPs and shifted the outcomes of the efforts of the regime!
Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you want to understand why the climate regime has been unsuccessful, this article by @ninalakhani.bsky.social is a great place to start! It's so important to shine a light on the ways that the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated the COPs and shifted the outcomes of the efforts of the regime!
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Saw some guy on TikTok talking about the train attack going “woke lefties keep going ‘they were British they were British’, well they don’t look like me and you!” and I just thought, “no one looks like you, you balloon-headed cunt.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Saw some guy on TikTok talking about the train attack going “woke lefties keep going ‘they were British they were British’, well they don’t look like me and you!” and I just thought, “no one looks like you, you balloon-headed cunt.”
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So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A chart on X titled “Food Stamps by Ethnicity” showed that most people receiving SNAP benefits are non-white and noncitizens. But U.S. Agriculture Department data shows that the largest group of SNAP recipients by race is white.
The lies of the GOP & culters!
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
The lies of the GOP & culters!
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
Fact-checking a chart of SNAP recipients by ethnicity
A viral chart on X titled “Food Stamps by Ethnicity” showed that most people receiving SNAP benefits are non-white and noncitizens. But U.S. Agriculture Department data shows that the largest group of...
www.politifact.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A chart on X titled “Food Stamps by Ethnicity” showed that most people receiving SNAP benefits are non-white and noncitizens. But U.S. Agriculture Department data shows that the largest group of SNAP recipients by race is white.
The lies of the GOP & culters!
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
The lies of the GOP & culters!
www.politifact.com/article/2025...
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I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
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That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
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"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
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And why call it 'golden ticket'?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
And why call it 'golden ticket'?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
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After being used in WW2 compulsory ID cards were abolished in 1952 because of the widespread sentiment that they are fundamentally at odds with British values and civil liberties.
That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After being used in WW2 compulsory ID cards were abolished in 1952 because of the widespread sentiment that they are fundamentally at odds with British values and civil liberties.
That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“…a pattern emerges from No 10’s management: the adoption of an untenable line, the strained defence of it, the unequivocal denunciations of alternative approaches, the stubbornness — then the slow acquiescence to political pressure in the days leading up to a brittle about-face.”
Mandelson scandal exposes fragility of Starmer’s standing
After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration of Lord Mandelson mere days later — a restlessness has descended on the PLP...
www.politics.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“…a pattern emerges from No 10’s management: the adoption of an untenable line, the strained defence of it, the unequivocal denunciations of alternative approaches, the stubbornness — then the slow acquiescence to political pressure in the days leading up to a brittle about-face.”
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I know London has a sewage problem.
But bloody hell!
But bloody hell!
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I know London has a sewage problem.
But bloody hell!
But bloody hell!
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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trump and the zero stages of grief
REPORTER: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk.
How are you holding up, sir?
TRUMP: THE NEW BALLROOM IS GONNA BE A BEAUTY!!
This fucking guy, man.
How are you holding up, sir?
TRUMP: THE NEW BALLROOM IS GONNA BE A BEAUTY!!
This fucking guy, man.
![REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uz5apa2z3jrxhjjzqw5qik65/bafkreig3fdzdxnbha2zwshenqjslpbsx2k53h6psmt2pceord7dtcdgusi@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
trump and the zero stages of grief